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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
Oh, I know that some of those books will be read a year from now, etc. But one thing I noticed about my own ebook buying habits--once a book is off the first couple of pages of my kindle or kindle management page, it has a slim chance of being read at all. It's not like my bookshelves where I browse on occasion. The bookshelves are easy to look through. I can see the spines--titles and covers. Ebooks? I browse a couple of pages on GR or on my kindle, but there is a large mass that I don't keep track of and will probably never even open again. Granted, many of them were free so they did not get looked at unless I had time. Many will be forgotten.
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I don't keep my books on my kindle, not all of them, just a handful. Its what I call the reading collection. Its also books I am planning to read next, but I often dip into my other collections. When I had my K1 before collections, I had all books on the kindle and I had to do inventive sorting to find stuff.
So I would click on the ones I wanted to read next and that would move them to the top.
But now with collections, there is no reason to look at the books in one long blob, cloud or device. Maybe if one had only a handful ebooks total, but I have over 3000 kindle books now. Some of course been read and so reside in the read collection.
A book I got in 2008 and not read yet is just as likely to be picked as next read as a book I got last week. I have collections by genre and subgenre and I am a big mood reader so I pick that way. And if someone talks about something and I find I already have it. But I never look at all books in my account sorted by date purchases. Actually, that is not an option anyway. As soon as one clicks on a book for any reason, it gets moved to the top still.
For me collections are much better than book shelves. I have way more of them and they don't take up space.
. And I don't get a knick in my neck having to hold my head sideways. Horrible for me to go browsing at the library for paper books. Does nobody else get all sideways with their neck doing that? Of course I have to get close enough with my bifocals to read the spines so that does't help.
Thank the lard for ebooks and my kindles.
I think we all have our system, but I would hate not enjoying reading anymore and having to dnf so much. I would adjust the system if that happened to me. In fact I did just that. Rarely do I just blindly pick something from the store anymore, I used to and so no new authors unless with a publisher and/or recommended by a reading friend I trust. No more new adult romances unless again recs from trusted readers, etc. I actually found some of the "older" stuff much more interesting than a lot of the new stuff. By older I mean even just going back 5-10 years in the genres I like to read gives me better reads. Or even further back. I just go all over the place and I guess that is normal being a voracious and mood based reader.
I have to add that so far my Voyage has the best book discovery of all the kindles. Besides the way collections are handled now, search is so much more efficient and useful now and I find a lot of stuff now I want to read and already own. Not that this is keeping me from obtaining new books.
